Bill Simmons Quotes
If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
Magic Johnson
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Garret Dillahunt
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
Rachel Roy
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom
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Be who you are and be that well.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
Walid Muallem
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
Robert James Ritchi
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I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.
James Gray
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In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
Chris Van Allsburg
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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Jonathan Lethem
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If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.
Bill Simmons